Outpatient Psychotherapy Improves Symptoms and Reduces Health Care Costs in Regularly and Prematurely Terminated Therapies

Frontiers in Psychology

Uwe Altmann¹ 

关键词: outpatient psychotherapy;    effectiveness;    efficacy;    cost reduction;    premature termination;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00748

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background: In view of a shortage of health care costs, monetary aspects of psychotherapy become increasingly relevant. The present study examined the pre-post reduction of impairment and direct health care costs depending on therapy termination (regularly terminated, dropout with an unproblematic reason, and dropout with a quality-relevant reason) and the association of symptom and cost reduction.

【 授权许可】

CC BY